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Max Ehrlich (1892-1944) was one of the most celebrated actors and directors on the German comedy and cabaret scene of the 1930s. But his brilliant career was brutally interrupted by the rise of Nazism and his resulting deportation in 1942 to Westerbork concentration camp in Holland. Amazingly, there behind the walls and barbed wire, Max Ehrlich formed a theater troupe composed of fellow prisoners - the majority of them also famous Jewish show business personalities - and produced high quality musical and comedy revues. This artistic activity provided the means for everyone concerned, audience and actors alike, to retain a small measure of humanity, free their minds - if only momentarily - from the tragedy of daily life and nourish the illusion of survival. But, in the end, comedy did not prevail: like almost all of his colleagues from this theater of despair, in 1944 Max Ehrlich was transported to Auschwitz and gassed.- Jean Coquelin was born on 1 December 1865 in Paris, France. He was an actor, known for Café de Paris (1938), L'abbé Constantin (1925) and La chanson du souvenir (1937). He was married to 'Blanche Miroir' and Louise Didès. He died on 1 October 1944 in Couilly-Pont-aux-Dames, Seine-et-Marne, France.